National Indigenous School in New Media Arts (NISNMA)

As a part of its ongoing commitment to training and supporting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, ANAT co-ordinated the second National Indigenous School in New Media Arts.

Michelle Blakeney, Still from 'Starr' 5 minute Drama, 2002

The aims of NISNMA 2002 were to:

provide the opportunity for artists who participated in the inaugural NISNMA to build on their existing skills and develop new skills

provide some entry level training for participants who are new to the School

provide networking opportunities for the participants

provide an open and comfortable space for communication between participants, tutors and guest lecturers

provide information about exhibiting and promoting new media art, including galleries, festival, awards

create opportunities for ongoing opportunities, projects and collaboration between participants

The School was held in Adelaide at Ngapartji Multimedia Centre and provided an intensive learning experience in a variety of digitally based mediums such as multimedia, the internet, world wide web, video and sound.The school catered for a wide range of skill bases and experiences, from artists with a small amount of experience to those artists more familiar with the technologies.

The entire NISNMA ran for three weeks, and was divided into three sections:
Weeks 1 & 2: Beginner students
Week 2: All students
Weeks 2 & 3: Advanced students

With the school based in South Australia, most tutors were based in Adelaide with guest tutors coming from interstate, providing a broad range of new media and web-based skills: Francesca da Rimini (SA), Claudia Raddatz (SA), Jason Davidson (NT), Cameron Goold (Vic), Patrick Tarn (SA), Elendil (SA), Martin Thompson (SA).

Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, South Australian Film Corporation, Queensland Government through Artworkers Alliance, NSW Ministry for the Arts, Adelaide City Council, Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute and Ngapartji Multimedia Centre.

ANAT is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council its arts funding and advisory body, by the South Australian Government through Arts SA and the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.